The Hanging Girl
- Published
- 1 January 2015
- Pages
- 596
- ISBN-13
- 9781410482914
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Hanging Girl is the sixth book in Jussi Adler-Olsen's Department Q series, published in 2015. This edition is translated by William Frost. It runs 596 pages. In the reading order it follows Buried and precedes The Scarred Woman.
Key facts about The Hanging Girl
Jussi Adler-Olsen wrote The Hanging Girl, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2015. The book has 596 pages.
We list 2 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781410482914 to find the main one.
The Hanging Girl is book 6 of 11 in the Department Q series. The series has 11 published books. However, the series starts with Mercy (2011). No Song for the Dead is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 8 September 2026.
That series sits on our nordic noir shelf. Meanwhile, No Song for the Dead is the latest published Jussi Adler-Olsen book on file, from 8 September 2026.
About Jussi Adler-Olsen
Jussi Adler-Olsen is a Danish author and one of the most successful voices in the Scandinavian noir tradition, best known for the Department Q series, following Carl Mørck, a prickly, traumatized homicide detective exiled to head a newly created cold-case unit in the basement of Copenhagen police headquarters after a shooting leaves a colleague paralyzed and another dead. See every Jussi Adler-Olsen book in order.
Its place in Department Q
The Hanging Girl is book 6 in the Department Q series. It follows Buried. It is followed by The Scarred Woman. See the full Department Q reading order.
Department Q is Copenhagen Police's cold-case division: a basement office, a budget of essentially nothing, and a caseload of the unsolved and unwanted. It's run, more or less against his will, by Detective Carl Morck -- traumatised, sardonic and barely functional after a shooting that killed one colleague and paralysed another -- alongside his enigmatic assistant Assad, whose own past turns out to be far more dangerous than his cheerful, tea-brewing exterior suggests. Jussi Adler-Olsen structures each novel…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781784295899
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781410482914